Tag: Books
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Tipping Point and Stickiness
I’ve been reading Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell and am currently going through a section on what he calls “stickiness”. The elements that make a message stick, and as an example he used Sesame Street and Blue’s Clues. Up to the point that I’m in right now, I think it’s a great chapter for all…
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Learning done, time for fun
I just finished Prensky’s book this morning and I’m not moving on to A Theory of Fun by Raph Koster. I got this book at the same time as Don’t bother me… but now I’m more interested after comments made in Prensky’s book about IDs taking the fun out of games/learning. My nutshell review of…
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Kong, Tablets and the DI Accent
This is going to be a bit of a double post, but it’s inspired by the same book – Prensky’s Don’t Bother Me Mom, I’m Learning. The first part is on games and how they can be used to explain story in ELA classes – I picked up King Kong for PS2 this week in…
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Readings list
I was asked while I was away, what a good reading list would be for a PD type person like me and an EdTech in general. I’m not sure if I have enough authority to really put a list out there, but it’s my blog and here are some of the books that I have…
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Brain Dump – Ideas from everywhere
Ok, just a bunch of ideas here after starting to read James Paul Gee’s book. Gee talks about internal and external grammars and how children start to interact with them in games. While reading this, I got to thinking – this is a means or process for getting kids to focus on, and ultimately enjoy…